July 24, 2006

We landed on the moon?

I'm not one to believe conspiracy theories, however I do find them interesting. Some people at work were talking about how we never really landed on the moon, and so I ended up with a link to this site, which shows a lot of facts that make it seem we haven't. Read the article, or at least the 2 points from the article below and you'll understand.

There should have been a substantial crater blasted out under the LEM's 10,000 pound thrust rocket. Sceptics would have you believe that the engines only had the power to blow the dust from underneath the LEM as it landed. If this is true, how did Armstrong create that famous boot print if all the dust had been blown away?

An astrophysicist who has worked for NASA writes that it takes two meters of shielding to protect against medium solar flares and that heavy ones give out tens of thousands of rem in a few hours. Russian scientists calculated in 1959 that astronauts needed a shield of 4 feet of lead to protect them on the Moons surface. Why didn't the astronauts on Apollo 14 and 16 die after exposure to this immense amount of radiation? And why are NASA only starting a project now to test the lunar radiation levels and what their effects would be on the human body if they have sent 12 men there already?

I'm not sure that I doubt we've been on the moon because of this, but it definitely makes you wonder.

Posted by adyer at 6:33 AM

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